Submarine



W. S. PINION.

SUBMARINE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT- l3. I918.

Patented Sept. 23, 1919.

WALTER S. PINION, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SUBMARIN'TE.

T 0 all whom itma l concern Be it known thatI', WVALTER S. PINION, a

citizen of the United States, residing at 723' S. 19th street, Philadelphia, in the county of 1 Philadelphia. and State of Pennsylvania,

have invented new and useful Improvements in: Submarines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to submersibles in general, andmore particularly to a submarine adapted for ramming a vessel or other floating body, whereby the destruction of said vessel or floating body may be effected.

T'hemain object of my invention is to pro vide a simple and effective means whereby the angular inclination for the submerging or raisingof a. submarine may be effectively controlled.

A further object of my invention-is'to provide a submarine with an eflicient means for ramming and piercing the hull of a vessel or other body when so desired, together with a means for withdrawing the submarine or forcing the same away from the hull of the vessel or other body so rann'ned.

A. still further object of my invention is to provide a novel means whereby the port-hole lights or other aperture-covering portions may be automatically controlled.

With these and other objects in view, as will later on be more clearly apparent, my invention consists essentially in the novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out by the appended .claim.

' In the further disclosure of the invention, reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, constituting a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the views, in which Figure 1 is a port-side view of a submarine partly broken away or in section, showing the improved incline controlling mechanism, as well as the ramming device.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same similarly broken away or in section to show the underlying parts, as well as more fully showing the means for projecting the submarine away from a vessel or other body when rammed.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary plan view of the means for forcing the submarine away from the hull of a vessel or other body when rammed, in its operative position.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Sent. 23, 1919.

Application filed September 13, 1918. Serial No. 253,977.

Fig. el is a perspective view of one of the incline controlling blades or fins.

Fig. 5 is a cross section of the ram.

Fig. 6 is a diagrammatic view of the wheel for controlling the incliningmechanism.

In the drawings, the numeral 10 indicates the hull or body of a submarine, and according to my improvements there is provided transversely of the fore part thereof a horizontal shaft 11, mounted in appropriate bearings, and carrying a worm wheel'12 in mesh with a worm 1.3 on a=fore and aft shaft 14 under the control of a handwheel15. Suitably connected to the-outer ends of "the aforesaid shaft 11 are connecting rods 16,111 turn pivotally connectedto r0ds-17 pivoted to the incline controlling bladesor fins 18.

These blades or fins 18 are normally horizontally disposed, and they'are pivotally mount ed on stub axles 19 projecting from the sides of the submarines skin, and they are also furnished at their forward ends with laterally projecting pintles 18, engaging in arcuate guides 20. The pintles 18 have heads 19' which engage between the guides 20 and the exterior of the hull so as to keep the movement of the blades or fins 18 in paths parallel with the guides 20 and thereby prevent any lateral turning movement of the hull from moving the blades or fins away therefrom. Thus the straining of the connecting parts is prevented, and it will be seen that when the hand wheel 15 is rotated in one direction, for instance, to the right, the blades 18 will be downwardly inclined, and the nose of the submarine will be deflected downwardly. A reverse rotation of the hand wheel 15 will effect an upward inclination of the nose of the submarine.

Forwardly of the submarine I provide a projecting ram 21 which is preferably made of the cross section shown in Fig. 5, that is to say, somewhat star-shaped, so that when i pierces the hull or skin of a vessel, it will effect a tearing action. In order to provide a ready withdrawal of the ram, I furnish the submarine with the means shown more fully in Figs. 2 and 3, and which briefly consists of an operating rod 22 secured to a laterally movable guide 23 which has pivotedat their outer ends with buffer devices 2% P and said links or rods 28 are also pivoted to fiXed'o-enter or centers 30; The operation of this mechanism will be clearly understood from Figs.' 2 and 8; the former of which shows the inoperative position, and the lat ter the operative position:

In order to provide a simple and fefi'ective 7 means for operating the aforesaid mechay nism, I connect the operating rod22, ,with the piston of a cylinder 31 communicating with a supply of compressed air or other motive fluid through connections 32, so that when said compressed air acts on the rear side of the piston the device 1s moved 1nto 1ts operatlve posltion, as shown 1n Flg. 3,

in Fig. 2.

' In Fig.6 the operating whee115; is shown.

to anenlarged scale, and it is provided'with i a pointer 33 adapted to nioveover a graduated scale 34, which is provided to indicate the angular inclination of above referred to.

Gopiesiof this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of latentsg the blades 18 From. the foregoing description it will be readily seen that I provide certain new andextremely useful features in connection with subniersibles, and I Wish it clearly understood that I do not limit myself to the precise detailshereinbefore briefly outlined, but consider myself free to make such detail changes as will adapt my invention to differ ent requirements, suchchanges and other fleeting fins means pivotally connecting'said deflecting fins to the hull; means for moving said fins on 1ts pivotal connectlon; arcuateguides secured to the exterior of said hull; andheaded plntles on said fins extending througlrslots providing'said arcuaterguides the heads of saidjpintles beingof greaterq' width than said slots and being positioned between said guides and said hull; substantiallyas described. a

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.- r WALTER S. PINIONQJ.

Washington, D. O. 

